The Write Stuff - Playwright; Joanna Murray-Smith

Published: Nov. 29, 2023, 6 p.m.

Joanna Murray-Smith\u2019s plays have been produced and translated all over the world, in over two dozen languages, including on Broadway, the West End and at the Royal National Theatre in London. Joanna has worked across many forms, from plays to novels, journalism, opera libretti and screenplays.\xa0

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Her plays include\xa0Three Little Words, Switzerland, Pennsylvania Avenue, True Minds, Songs for Nobodies, The Gift, Rockabye, The Female of the Species, Ninety, Bombshells, Berlin\xa0and\xa0Flame\xa0(Melbourne Theatre Company);\xa0L\u2019Appartement\xa0(Queensland Theatre);\xa0American Song\xa0(Milwaukee Repertory);\xa0Day One-A-Hotel-Evening\xa0(Red Stitch);\xa0Fury\xa0(Sydney Theatre Company);\xa0Rapture, Nightfall, Redemption, Love Child\xa0and\xa0Honour\xa0(Malthouse Theatre).\xa0

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Both\xa0Honour\xa0and\xa0Rapture\xa0won the Victorian Premier\u2019s Literary Award for Best Play. \xa0

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Joanna has also adapted\xa0Hedda Gabler\xa0(for the State Theatre Company of South Australia) and Ingmar Bergman\u2019s\xa0Scenes from a Marriage\xa0for Sir Trevor Nunn (Coventry/London).\xa0

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Her adaptation of Chekhov\u2019s\xa0Uncle Vanya\xa0will be seen at the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney next year; as will\xa0Switzerland. While a tour of her extraordinary examination of our female Prime. Minister,\xa0Julia\xa0will play in Melbourne, Adelaide and a return Sydney season.

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